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“timothy bolton”

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  • Cnut the Great

    by Timothy Bolton ...
    Series series The English Monarchs Series
    A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of the most misunderstood of the Anglo-Saxon kings: Cnut, the powerful Danish warlord who conquered England and created a North Sea empire in the eleventh ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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    Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain

    by Michael Farquhar ...
    Spanning 500 years of British history, a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the world’s most engaging royal historiansBeleaguered by scandal, betrayed by faithless spouses, bedeviled by ambitious children, the kings and queens of Great Britain have been many things, but they have never been dull. Some sacrificed everything for love, ... Read more

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  • The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

    by Robert K. Massie ...
    A “masterful” (The Washington Post Book World) account of the quest to solve one of the great mysteries in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Catherine the Great“Riveting . . . unfolds like a detective story.”—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIn July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, ... Read more

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  • Kings and Queens - A Very Peculiar History

    by Antony Mason ...
    Series Book 12 - A Very Peculiar History
    Which king's guards massacred a group of his supporters by mistake? Who had an oversized tongue and had to slobber when they ate food? Who was so large when they died that they had to be buried in a square coffin? Who survived seven assassination attempts? As you can tell from the bizarre questions above, it wasn't all thrones and sceptres for British kings and queens. Some of them were completely ... Read more

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  • The Murder of the Romanovs

    by Andrew Cook ...
    The overthrow and execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family is a cause célèbre of 20th century history. Andrew Cooks re-investigation of the story finally solves one of the greatest mysteries of world history. The author draws upon new forensic evidence and newly discovered British and Russian Secret Service records reveal the truth about the familys murder, the proposed ... Read more

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  • Catherine the Great and Potemkin

    Power, Love and the Russian Empire

    by Simon Sebag Montefiore ...
    'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' EconomistIt was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin - wildly ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Queen Victoria

    A Personal History

    by Christopher Hibbert ...
    Christopher Hibbert’s acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself.In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to reign as queen – and later Empress of India – for almost sixty-four years, presiding over twenty prime ministers and a period of unprecedented social and ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Marie Antoinette Collection

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Marie Antoinette•Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Leon Imbert de Saint-Amand•Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan•Secret Court Memoirs of Louis XVI and the Royal Family of France I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, ... Read more

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  • Imprudent King

    A New Life of Philip II

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins with his conception (1526) and ends with his ascent to Paradise (1603), two occurrences ... Read more

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  • Prince Philip

    by William English ...
    Series series The Monarchy
    Prince Philip, consort to Queen Elizabeth II, has a reputation for being blunt and making inappropriate comments, but this stems from a no nonsense approach to life developed through a difficult childhood and exploits in the Navy during WWII. He has supported the Queen throughout her reign and has many of his own individual achievements. Prince Philip also founded the famous Duke of Edinburgh ... Read more

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  • Edward the Confessor

    by Frank Barlow ...
    Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly re-creates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Norman Conquest with deep insight and great historical ... Read more

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  • Lives of the Princesses of Wales

    by Mary Beacock Fryer, Arthur Bousfield, Garry Toffoli ...
    Beautifully illustrated, this book looks at the nine women who have been Princesses of Wales. From Joan, the "Fair Maid of Kent," through the tragic Katharine of Aragon, Henry’s VIII’s first wife, and the tempestuous Caroline of Brunswick, the mistreated wife of George IV, to the present fairy-tale, headline-catching Princess, their stories are told with insight and compassion. ... Read more

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